Information and Resources for Service Providers

You can find links here to resources for Parents and Children/Young People  or contact the FaPMI Program for more details.

Group program details and referral forms can be found here

Let’s Talk is an intervention intended to guide strengths based discussion with consumer parents about their children, relationships and parenting – a series of Let’s Talk Resources are available below:

• Let’s Talk: Pregnancy (DOC, 97KB)
• Let’s Tallk: Infancy Toddler (DOC, 97KB)
• Let’s Talk: Pre-schooler (DOC, 97KB)
• Let’s Talk: School Children (DOC, 101KB)
• Let’s Talk: Adolescence (DOC, 102KB)
• Parent-Consumer Feedback Form (DOC, 98KB)
• Session Record (DOC, 93KB)

Training can also be accessed via iLearn on the Eastern Health Intranet or at Emerging Minds website.

• Bouverie Centre – Statewide FaPMI Program offers CHAMPS and Space 4 Us Facilitator Training, as well as a range of Family Supports including Single Session Family Consultation – Training Calendar
• Emerging Minds – online portal for training and resources regarding child mental health and family focused practice.
  All Emerging Minds and COPMI resources are developed in collaboration with people with lived experience of parental mental illness, leading researchers and service providers in the mental health field.
• Centre for Mental Health Learning – learning and resource hub for Mental Health Staff. Includes Peer Inside – access to tools and support for Consumer and Family Carer Workers, and for managers, coordinators and colleagues – this page helps you ‘peer inside’ and access training and information about consumer or family carer work.
• Training and Employment Opportunities for the Lived Experience Workforce – in our work we partner with peer workers – parents, children and young people who have a lived experience of being in families where a parent has a mental illness. Training and employment is available in group facilitation, staff training and service development. For example, this website was co-written with peer workers. For training and employment inquiries please email: [email protected]

• Tandem – the Victorian peak body representing family and friends supporting people living with mental health issues – support and referral for carers and family, Carer Support Fund, Carer Support Groups, NDIS Carer Support

• Australian Drug Foundation
• Mirabel Foundation
• Tools for change – a new way of working with families & carers (NADA)
• ‘Familiar Needs – Working with children and families in AOD services’ – a resource folder provided to AOD service providers to build the sectors capacity to address the needs of individuals, families and communities (VAADA Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association – peak body for alcohol and other drug (AOD) services in Victoria) (2010).

Below are some links to tools and resources that can help your service system be more responsive

• Policy and frameworks (relevant to an Australian context including the Victorian FaPMI strategy)
• Chief Psychiatrist Guidelines – Working Together with Families and Carers
• COPMI has resources tailored to specific settings (e.g. early childhood/ schools/ inpatient mental health etc.)
• VicChamps (2003-06) was a state funded three-year project that created the foundation for the FaPMI strategy. The project’s history and evaluation documents can be found here